CN215051871U - Special tool for wet paving of sidewalk - Google Patents
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The invention belongs to the field of engineering machinery, and particularly relates to a special tool for wet paving of a sidewalk and a using method thereof. The invention adopts the transverse telescopic connecting rod to be in sliding connection with the longitudinal connecting rod, adopts the transverse telescopic connecting rod to replace a transverse moisture-removing line, uses the clamp to fix the clamp with the curb stone, adopts the steel wire rope and scale control for the longitudinal moisture-removing line, has higher precision of both the controlled elevation and the straightness compared with the manual moisture-removing brick line hanging, can adapt to different cross slope sidewalks, and has more precise control on the elevation compared with the traditional construction height control. The tool has a reasonable structure and is convenient to operate, and is a tool for integrating mortar trowelling, soil moisture filling and warehousing. The tool has high paving quality, avoids the fracture waste of construction lines, greatly improves the working efficiency and lightens the labor intensity.
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Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of engineering machinery, and particularly relates to a special tool for wet paving of a sidewalk.
Background
The traditional municipal road pavement is paved by water permeable tiles, and the phenomena of abrasion and tilting gradually appear on the surfaces of the tiles after about one year, so that the pavement is paved by adopting a manual soil moisture filling and bin filling wet paving method by using the ceramic tiles which are mostly used in the current design.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a special tool for wet paving of a sidewalk and a using method thereof, aiming at solving the defects of the prior art.
The invention is realized by the following technical scheme:
a special tool for wet paving of a sidewalk comprises two parallel transverse telescopic connecting rods, wherein each transverse telescopic connecting rod comprises a loop bar, the left end and the right end of each loop bar are respectively sleeved with a telescopic rod, each telescopic rod slides in each loop bar and is fixed with the corresponding loop bar through a fixing screw rod at the upper part of each telescopic rod, and the ends of the telescopic rods are fixedly connected with a clamp; a transverse rod sliding rail is arranged on the transverse telescopic connecting rod; a longitudinal connecting rod is connected with two transverse telescopic connecting rods in a sliding manner, and the longitudinal connecting rod is vertical to the transverse telescopic connecting rods; a longitudinal rod slide rail is arranged on the side face of the longitudinal connecting rod, a trowel slide block is arranged on the longitudinal rod slide rail and slides along the longitudinal rod slide rail, two fixing frames are fixed on the trowel slide block, fixing rods vertically penetrate through the two fixing frames, the fixing rods are fixed in the fixing frames through screw rods, and a trowel is fixed at the lower ends of the two fixing rods; a longitudinal moisture-applying line is also arranged between the two transverse telescopic connecting rods, two ends of the longitudinal moisture-applying line are respectively fixed on the moisture-applying line sliding blocks, and the moisture-applying line sliding blocks respectively slide along the transverse rod sliding rails of the two transverse telescopic connecting rods; scales are arranged on the transverse telescopic connecting rod.
Preferably, soil moisture line slider bottom flushes with horizontal telescopic link pole bottom, and the soil moisture line slider bottom of arbitrary end is equipped with the trompil, vertically beats the soil moisture line and penetrates from the trompil to be connected to on the tight floodgate of pulling on soil moisture line slider upper portion, pull tight floodgate and soil moisture line slider link together through pivot A on the side of being located the soil moisture line slider.
Preferably, an auxiliary gate is arranged on the moisture line sliding block below the tensioning gate.
Preferably, the fixture structure is: the fixing piece is fixedly connected with a right-angle clamp and is connected to the telescopic rod through a rotating shaft B, and the fixing piece rotates around the rotating shaft B; the fixing piece is provided with two positioning holes, the telescopic rod is provided with fixing holes corresponding to the positioning holes, and the fixing piece is positioned on the telescopic rod through screws penetrating through the fixing holes and the positioning holes; the two positioning holes respectively correspond to 1.5% and 2% of the slope of the sidewalk.
Preferably, the two sides of the trowel are provided with tilting sections.
Preferably, the longitudinal moisture-applying line is a steel wire rope.
Preferably, the middle position of the longitudinal connecting rod can be folded downwards, and a fixed clamping groove is formed in the folding position.
The use method of the special tool for wet paving of the sidewalk comprises the following steps:
the method comprises the following steps: unfolding the longitudinal connecting rod, clamping and fixing the longitudinal connecting rod by using a fixing clamping groove, extending the transverse telescopic connecting rod according to the width of the sidewalk, clamping the edges of the curbs on two sides by using a clamping device, and fastening a fixing screw to fix the length of the transverse telescopic connecting rod;
step two: sliding the longitudinal connecting rod to enable the plastering tool to be tightly attached to the kerbstone, calculating the height of the top surface to be paved with mortar, adjusting the plastering tool to the calculated height of the top surface, and fixing the plastering tool;
step three: paving mortar along the length direction of the longitudinal connecting rod, manually leveling the virtual mortar by using a trowel, and operating for two cycles;
step four: manually moving a moisture line sliding block, adjusting the position of the moisture line sliding block, adjusting a downward pressing tensioning gate to tension a longitudinal moisture line, and then fixing the tensioning gate by adopting a wood wedge;
step five: paving ceramic tiles manually according to the elevation of the longitudinal moisture-preserving line for one cycle;
step six: repeating the third, fourth and fifth steps until the ceramic tile bin filling is finished;
step seven: and after the tool is used, the fixing screw rod is unscrewed, the fixing is released, and the tool is moved to the next construction area for recycling.
In the first step, when the sidewalk has a slope design requirement, the positioning holes in the fixing piece are aligned with the corresponding fixing holes in the telescopic rod to adjust the fixture to the corresponding slope, then the screws penetrate into the positioning holes and the fixing holes to fix the fixing piece on the telescopic rod, then the right angle of the right-angle fixture clamps the right-angle edge of the curb, and the fixing screws are screwed down to fix the curb.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
the tool is reasonable in structure and convenient to operate, and is a tool for integrating mortar trowelling, soil moisture filling and warehousing. The tool has high paving quality, avoids the fracture waste of construction lines, greatly improves the working efficiency and lightens the labor intensity.
And secondly, the transverse telescopic connecting rod is adopted to replace a transverse soil moisture digging line, a fixture and a curb stone to be fixed and stable, so that the device is suitable for different cross slope sidewalks and has more accurate control elevation than the traditional construction line hanging.
And thirdly, the pavement is paved from the curb to the lower reverse elevation, compared with the manual pavement of mortar by experience, the elevation accuracy is high, and meanwhile, the work efficiency is improved.
And fourthly, the longitudinal ploughing line is controlled by a steel wire rope and scales, and compared with manual ploughed brick hanging line, the ploughed hole ploughing line has much higher precision in both the controlled elevation and the straightness.
And fifthly, the tool can be folded and stretched, and is convenient to carry and transport.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged schematic view of the trowel of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a portion of the structure of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the structure of the tension gate of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the structure of the fixture of the present invention.
In the figure: 1 horizontal flexible connecting rod, 2 clamping screw, 3 fixtures, 4 horizontal pole slide rails, 5 vertical connecting rods, 6 fixed slot, 7 vertical pole slide rails, 8 utensil of wiping slider, 9 dead levers, 10 utensil of wiping, 11 vertical soil moisture line of beating, 12 soil moisture line sliders, 13 tensioning floodgate, 14 loop bars, 15 telescopic links, 16 perk sections, 17 pivot A, 18 supplementary floodgate, 19 stationary blades, 20 right angle fixtures, 21 pivot B, 22 locating holes, the fixed frame of 23.
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The following embodiments of the present invention are provided, and it should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments, and all equivalent changes based on the technical solutions of the present invention are within the protection scope of the present invention.
The special tool for wet paving of the sidewalk comprises three parts of devices, which are respectively introduced as follows:
the first part device is a transverse telescopic connecting rod 1, and the structure is as follows: the transverse telescopic connecting rod 1 comprises two parallel rods which can be telescopic along the length direction. Specifically, each transverse telescopic connecting rod 1 comprises a loop bar 14 and two telescopic bars 15, the loop bar 14 is located in the middle, the two telescopic bars 15 are respectively sleeved at two ends of the loop bar 14, the telescopic bars 15 slide in the loop bar 14, and the telescopic bars 15 and the loop bar 14 are fixed together through the fixing screw rods 2 on the upper portions. When the telescopic rod 15 is required to slide in the sleeve rod 14, the fixing screw rod 2 is unscrewed, and when the sliding is not required, the fixing screw rod 2 is screwed. The transverse rod sliding rail 4 is arranged on the transverse telescopic connecting rod 1, and scales are arranged on the transverse telescopic connecting rod 1, wherein the scales are preferably millimeter-scale scales.
The ends of the telescopic rods 15 at the two ends are fixedly connected with a clamping device 3, and the clamping device 3 is used for being clamped on the edges of the curb stones at the two ends. Since the edge of a general curb is a right angle, the fixture 3 has a right angle, and the existing fixture 3 with the function is within the protection scope of the invention. Because some municipal road pavement designs have certain slope, and the slope is 1.5% or 2% generally, therefore in order to better adapt to the pavement that has the slope and lay, here as preferred scheme, this embodiment has designed a fixture 3 that adjusts the slope, and the concrete structure is as follows: the fixture 3 comprises a fixing plate 19, and the fixing plate 19 is fixedly connected with a right-angle fixture 20, wherein the right-angle fixture 20 is a fixture with a right angle. A rotating shaft B21 is fixed on the telescopic rod 15, the fixing piece 19 is rotatably connected on the rotating shaft B21, the fixing piece 19 can rotate around a rotating shaft B21, and therefore the whole fixture 3 can rotate around a rotating shaft B21. Two positioning holes 22 are formed in the fixing piece 19, fixing holes corresponding to the positioning holes 22 are formed in the telescopic rod 15, and the fixing piece 19 is positioned on the telescopic rod 15 through screws penetrating through the fixing holes and the positioning holes 22. The two positioning holes 22 correspond to 1.5% and 2% of the slope of the sidewalk, for example, when one positioning hole 22 is aligned with the corresponding fixing hole, the slope of the sidewalk corresponds to 1.5%, that is, the whole fixture 3 is inclined by 1.5%, the fixing piece 19 is fixed on the telescopic rod 15 by the screw, the whole fixture 3 is not rotated around the rotating shaft B21, and the whole transverse telescopic connecting rod 1 is also inclined by 1.5%. Similarly, if a sidewalk slope of 2% is to be set, then another locating hole 22 and another fixing hole are aligned and fixed.
The second part of the device is a longitudinal connecting rod 5, and the structure is as follows: the longitudinal connecting rod 5 is connected between the two transverse telescopic connecting rods 1 in a sliding mode, the longitudinal connecting rod 5 is perpendicular to the transverse telescopic connecting rods 1, and the longitudinal connecting rod 5 is connected with the transverse telescopic connecting rods 1 through sliding blocks. The side of the longitudinal connecting rod 5 is provided with a longitudinal rod slide rail 7, the longitudinal rod slide rail 7 is provided with a plastering slide block 8, and the plastering slide block 8 slides along the longitudinal rod slide rail 7. Two fixing frames 23 are fixed on the trowel sliding block 8, the fixing rods 9 vertically penetrate through the two fixing frames 23, and the fixing rods 9 are fixed in the fixing frames 23 through screw rods. The up-and-down position of the fixing rod 9 can be adjusted by unscrewing the screw rod, and after the adjustment is completed, the screw rod is screwed up and fastened in the fixing frame 23. The lower ends of the two fixing rods 9 are fixed on a trowel 10, and the plane of the trowel 10 is perpendicular to the fixing rods 9.
In order to prevent mortar from overflowing the trowel 10, it is preferable that the trowel 10 is provided with the raised sections 16 on both sides.
Preferably, the longitudinal connecting rod 5 is a foldable rod, the foldable part is arranged in the middle of the longitudinal connecting rod 5, the middle of the longitudinal connecting rod 5 can be folded downwards, and the folded part is provided with a fixed clamping groove 6 for fixing the folded part. The folding part can be folded by a hinge, and can also be folded by other modes, and the folding part is not particularly limited here. When the folding position is unfolded, the folding position is fixed through the fixing clamping groove 6. The fixed clamping groove 6 is connected with two sides of the folding part, so that the folding part does not rotate any more.
The third part of the device is a longitudinal moisture-applying line 11, and the structure is as follows: the longitudinal moisture content beating line 11 is a longitudinal moisture content beating elevation auxiliary line and adopts a steel wire rope with the diameter of 0.6 mm. The two ends of the longitudinal soil moisture digging line 11 are respectively fixed on the soil moisture line sliding block 12, the bottom of the soil moisture line sliding block 12 is flush with the bottom of the transverse telescopic connecting rod 1, and the soil moisture line sliding block 12 slides along the transverse rod sliding rail 4 of the transverse telescopic connecting rod 1.
Because in actual construction, the longitudinal soil moisture applying line 11 has long service life and can produce certain degree of buckling or deformation, therefore the preferred device that has designed a longitudinal soil moisture applying line 11 that can flare out of this embodiment, concrete structure is as follows: the bottom of the dead line sliding block 12 at either end is provided with an opening, the dead line 11 longitudinally penetrates through the opening and penetrates out of the dead line sliding block 12 at the upper part, and the penetrating end is fixed on a tensioning brake 13 at the upper part of the dead line sliding block 12. The tension brake 13 is a right-angle rod, the lower end of the tension brake is fixed on the side surface of the dead line slide block 12 through a rotating shaft A17, and the tension brake 13 can rotate around a rotating shaft A17. When the tightening gate 13 is pressed downwards, the tightening gate 13 rotates around the rotation axis a17 to pull the connected longitudinal furry furrow making lines 11, and when the longitudinal furry furrow making lines 11 are straightened, the gap between the tightening gate 13 and the furry furrow making line slide block 12 is plugged with an article, such as a wood wedge, so that the tightening gate 13 does not rotate around the rotation axis a17 any more, and the longitudinal furry furrow making lines 11 are always straightened.
Further, in order to facilitate the straightening of the longitudinal moisture-collecting wire 11, it is preferable that an auxiliary gate 18 is provided on the moisture-collecting wire slider 12 below the tightening gate 13. When the bicycle is straightened, the upper tensioning brake 13 and the lower auxiliary brake 18 are held by hands and pressed downwards just like the brake cable on the bicycle handle is gripped, and then the gap between the tensioning brake 13 and the dead cable slide block 12 is plugged by wood wedges so that the dead cable slide block does not rotate any more.
The tool of the invention can integrate the plastering, the soil moisture filling and the storehouse filling of mortar into a whole, and the using method is as follows:
the method comprises the following steps: the longitudinal connecting rod 5 is unfolded, the fixing clamping groove 6 is clamped at the folding position to be screwed and fixed, so that the longitudinal connecting rod cannot be bent, then the transverse telescopic connecting rod 1 is extended according to the width of a sidewalk, the transverse telescopic connecting rod 1 is extended to just clamp the edges of the curbs on two sides tightly by the clamping device 3, and the fixing screw 2 is fastened to fix the length of the transverse telescopic connecting rod 1.
If the design requirement of the slope exists, the fixture 3 is adjusted to the corresponding slope, and the preferred operation method of the fixture 3 in the above embodiment is as follows: the positioning hole 22 of the fixing plate 19 is aligned with the corresponding fixing hole on the telescopic rod 15, the general gradient requirement is 1.5% or 2%, the whole fixture 3 rotates around the rotating shaft B21, the aligned positioning hole 22 and fixing hole are selected according to the requirement during rotation, and then the screw penetrates through the positioning hole 22 and fixing hole to fix the fixing plate 19 on the telescopic rod 15, so that the fixing plate does not rotate any more. After the fixture 3 is adjusted to the corresponding gradient, the right angle of the right angle fixture 20 is clamped on the right angle edge of the curb, and the fixing screw 2 is screwed down to be firmly fixed.
Step two: sliding the longitudinal links 5 ensures that the trowel 10 is held against the curb. And calculating the top surface height of the mortar to be paved according to the tested virtual paving coefficient, wherein the calculation is common knowledge of technicians and is not repeated herein. Then the screw rod is unscrewed to adjust the up-and-down position of the fixing rod 9, thereby adjusting the trowel 10 to the calculated height, and then the screw rod is screwed to fix the trowel 10.
Step three: and paving the mixed mortar along the length direction of the longitudinal connecting rod 5, wherein the width of the mixed mortar is generally 60cm, manually using a trowel 10 to trowel the virtual mortar along the length direction of the longitudinal connecting rod 5, operating two cycles, and overlapping the two cycles by about 10cm according to construction experience.
Step four: manually moving the moisture line sliding block 12 according to the width of the ceramic tile, adjusting the moisture line sliding block 12 to a corresponding position, tightly holding the tensioning gate 13 and the auxiliary gate 18 after adjustment, and after tensioning the longitudinal moisture line 11, filling a gap between the tensioning gate 13 and the moisture line sliding block 12 by using a wood wedge to fix the tensioning gate 13.
Step five: and (3) manually paving the ceramic tiles according to the elevation of the longitudinal moisture-preserving line 11 for one cycle.
Step six: and repeating the third step, the fourth step and the fifth step until the ceramic tile bin filling is finished.
Step seven: after use, the fixing screw 2 is unscrewed, the fixing is released, and the tool is moved to the next construction area for recycling.
The above-described embodiment is only one of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and general changes and substitutions by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present invention are included in the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. A special tool for wet paving of a sidewalk is characterized in that: the telescopic device comprises two parallel transverse telescopic connecting rods (1), wherein each transverse telescopic connecting rod (1) comprises a loop bar (14), the left end and the right end of each loop bar (14) are respectively sleeved with a telescopic rod (15), each telescopic rod (15) slides in each loop bar (14) and is fixed with each loop bar (14) through a fixing screw rod (2) at the upper part, and the end heads of the telescopic rods (15) are fixedly connected with a clamp (3); a cross bar sliding rail (4) is arranged on the transverse telescopic connecting rod (1); a longitudinal connecting rod (5) is connected with the two transverse telescopic connecting rods (1) in a sliding manner, and the longitudinal connecting rod (5) is vertical to the transverse telescopic connecting rods (1); a longitudinal rod slide rail (7) is arranged on the side face of the longitudinal connecting rod (5), a trowel slide block (8) is arranged on the longitudinal rod slide rail (7), the trowel slide block (8) slides along the longitudinal rod slide rail (7), two fixing frames (23) are fixed on the trowel slide block (8), fixing rods (9) vertically penetrate through the two fixing frames (23), the fixing rods (9) are fixed in the fixing frames (23) through screw rods, and a trowel (10) is fixed at the lower ends of the two fixing rods (9); a longitudinal moisture content applying line (11) is further arranged between the two transverse telescopic connecting rods (1), two ends of the longitudinal moisture content applying line (11) are respectively fixed on moisture content line sliding blocks (12), and the moisture content line sliding blocks (12) respectively slide along the transverse rod sliding rails (4) of the two transverse telescopic connecting rods (1); scales are arranged on the transverse telescopic connecting rod (1).
2. A pavement wet-paving special tool as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: soil moisture line slider (12) bottom flushes with horizontal flexible connecting rod (1) bottom, and soil moisture line slider (12) bottom at any end is equipped with the trompil, vertically beats soil moisture line (11) and penetrates from the trompil and is connected to on the tight floodgate (13) of pulling on soil moisture line slider (12) upper portion, pull tight floodgate (13) and be located soil moisture line slider (12) side, pull tight floodgate (13) and link together through pivot A (17) with soil moisture line slider (12).
3. A pavement wet-paving special tool as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that: an auxiliary gate (18) is arranged on the moisture line sliding block (12) below the tightening gate (13).
4. A wet paving kit as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein: the structure of the fixture (3) is as follows: the telescopic rod comprises a fixing piece (19), wherein the fixing piece (19) is fixedly connected with a right-angle clamp (20), the fixing piece (19) is connected to a telescopic rod (15) through a rotating shaft B (21), and the fixing piece (19) rotates around the rotating shaft B (21); the fixing piece (19) is provided with two positioning holes (22), the telescopic rod (15) is provided with fixing holes corresponding to the positioning holes (22), and the fixing piece (19) is positioned on the telescopic rod (15) through screws penetrating through the fixing holes and the positioning holes (22); the two positioning holes (22) correspond to 1.5% and 2% of the slope of the sidewalk respectively.
5. A pavement wet-paving special tool as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that: the two sides of the plastering tool (10) are provided with tilting sections (16).
6. A pavement wet-paving special tool as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that: the longitudinal moisture-applying line (11) is a steel wire rope.
7. A pavement wet-paving special tool as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that: the middle position of the longitudinal connecting rod (5) can be folded downwards, and a fixed clamping groove (6) is arranged at the folding position.
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